Mary’s talk is called “Invisible Weaving at the Liminal Loom”
Birds build nests. Bees make honey. What do humans do? We give form to the imaginal impulse. Yet, facing the challenges of the Anthropocene era, we must question the virtue of “human nature.” Ought we to align with it, or defy it?
A mythological awareness is helpful. Imagine mythology as an invisible weaving, and we are the weavers. The work proceeds, with or without our awareness, but awareness helps us find our way to the rhythms and patterns that shape our lives. Awareness elucidates our continuity with location, elements, and the influences of anima mundi. Awareness helps us better understand each other and ourselves.
This experiential session offers a simple method for group imaginal exploration. Coming together around the liminal loom, we become more aware of our invisible threads. What are others thinking, feeling, and noticing? Where do our threads cross, align, or diverge? We weave a sense of group mythology, to which each relates in their own way.
About Mary
Mary Lounsbury is a mythologist and creative arts facilitator, with a PhD in Mythological Studies with Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and a BS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research supports the use of the creative process as means to integrate and enhance intuitive, intellectual, and experiential knowing; addresses the social importance of the mythic imagination, which emerges out of shared experience; and bridges the relationship between Self and Other.
Mary founded Mythos-Sphere in 2016 as a social context for exploring the space between real and pretend. To learn more about her work, please visit her website: https://www.mythos-sphere.com/
To hear Mary’s talk and many others, join us at the Mythologium!
The Mythologium is a conference and retreat for mythologists and friends of myth, held July 29 – 31 via Zoom in the Pacific time zone.